Sorry I didnt have much time to concentrate on this post..
Write down all the organizational structures from both readings with enough info to remember them.
Language of Librarians: label, classification system, catalog
Themes to organize information: Category, time, location, alphabetic, continuum
Sorting and chunking: self-explanatory
Wireframe – rough outline
Eyetracking – the way viewers look at a page. The direction that lines move your eyes and which corners one starts at first.
Task-oriented – information organized by task or processes: edit, insert, file
Audience-specific – sites designed thinking of a certain audience as viewers. Possibly for viewers that will re-visit
Database – a domain to search for specific information. Is best for catalogs and archives that have a lot of information
Hypertext – A way to link pages together but if there are a lot it can be confusing to re-trace your steps.
Sequences – a straight continuum of pages, such as a 5-page news article. Not recommended for a site layout.
Hierarchy - a way to sub-categorize multiple times so that viewers don’t get confused when look at one single page.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Post #6
Weinberger's point is to explain how everything on the web is so miscellaneous but we have come up with brilliant ways to organize such a miscellaneous space. He goes into detail about the three different types of order that we use when organizing anything. The third order of orders opens up one of the most important aspects of the book, the ideas and ways of tagging to organize data. Changes in the way our society is communicating and gaining knowledge has changed the way we organize such large pools of information and data.
Jenkins introduces the idea of convergence culture and how it works. Different communities that have formed from media such as fan bases are intertwined into new media. Old and new media are now converging. Our communication tools have now formed our communities in a participatory fashion, interacting about almost everything we come across.
Lessig concentrates mostly on the idea and issue surrounding copyright. Our new technologies and access to internet has allowed us to create sort of a remix culture that belong to copyright. This new culture has changed the view of copyright and we are now going to have to change or alter the industry to form to the public. Lessig poses a lot of questions through the book because the issue is forming right before our eyes and no answers have been created yet.
Key Terms: Miscellaneous, Essentialism, Order of Orders, Identifiers, lumping and splitting, convergence, transmedia, collective intelligence, participatory culture, remix, copyright, sharing economies
Connections: All three of the books focus on the overall effect that our new technological culture has had on the pre-existing one. We have changed the way we organize, think, search, communicate, and participate. They all apply to the issue surrounding the digital divide and how older generations differ in contrast with the new then newer generations. After reading all three it is easy to see how information and data is stored, interpreted, and used on the internet.
Final Project: In the final project we will use information and ideas from all three authors to create something that is new and sensible to an audience. We will order things in a sensible fashion that may be easy to navigate. We can use new ideas to create something that looks fresh, and we can also remix old data to give it more power and attention. Even though we will have so many options, we will also need to remember the user ability we are aiming for. It will also need to be somewhat simple and clean cut for those who are not used to the new web culture.
Jenkins introduces the idea of convergence culture and how it works. Different communities that have formed from media such as fan bases are intertwined into new media. Old and new media are now converging. Our communication tools have now formed our communities in a participatory fashion, interacting about almost everything we come across.
Lessig concentrates mostly on the idea and issue surrounding copyright. Our new technologies and access to internet has allowed us to create sort of a remix culture that belong to copyright. This new culture has changed the view of copyright and we are now going to have to change or alter the industry to form to the public. Lessig poses a lot of questions through the book because the issue is forming right before our eyes and no answers have been created yet.
Key Terms: Miscellaneous, Essentialism, Order of Orders, Identifiers, lumping and splitting, convergence, transmedia, collective intelligence, participatory culture, remix, copyright, sharing economies
Connections: All three of the books focus on the overall effect that our new technological culture has had on the pre-existing one. We have changed the way we organize, think, search, communicate, and participate. They all apply to the issue surrounding the digital divide and how older generations differ in contrast with the new then newer generations. After reading all three it is easy to see how information and data is stored, interpreted, and used on the internet.
Final Project: In the final project we will use information and ideas from all three authors to create something that is new and sensible to an audience. We will order things in a sensible fashion that may be easy to navigate. We can use new ideas to create something that looks fresh, and we can also remix old data to give it more power and attention. Even though we will have so many options, we will also need to remember the user ability we are aiming for. It will also need to be somewhat simple and clean cut for those who are not used to the new web culture.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Post #5
As Jenkins states on the second page of the introduction, "the book is about the relationship between three concepts - media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence." In the introduction in particular he introduces and elaborates on the idea of convergence. A number of examples are used to clarify the concept as well as talking about the culture that is affected by convergence. The black box theory is an important topic that he also talks about. Its the concept that "sooner, or later, the argument goes, all media content is going to flow through a single black box into our living rooms."
-"Because there is more information on any given topic than anyone can store in their head, there is an added incentive for us to talk among ourselves about the media we consume."
-"Producers who fail to make their peace with this new participatory culture will face declining goodwill and diminish revenues."
The first quote that I picked out makes me think of all of the information that pops up in a search engine when searching for a topic. It is easier to collect needed metadata when conversing with other people
I think Weinburger and Jenkins do have a connection but just looking a things from a different angle. They both talk about how media is being taken in by its audience and put to use. We are facing new forms of media every day and massive amounts of information through them all. The media outlets are growing so fast that we are having to adapt faster.
-"Because there is more information on any given topic than anyone can store in their head, there is an added incentive for us to talk among ourselves about the media we consume."
-"Producers who fail to make their peace with this new participatory culture will face declining goodwill and diminish revenues."
The first quote that I picked out makes me think of all of the information that pops up in a search engine when searching for a topic. It is easier to collect needed metadata when conversing with other people
I think Weinburger and Jenkins do have a connection but just looking a things from a different angle. They both talk about how media is being taken in by its audience and put to use. We are facing new forms of media every day and massive amounts of information through them all. The media outlets are growing so fast that we are having to adapt faster.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Post #4
The overall concept of Weinbergers theory is that everything in our digital world is so miscellaneous that its strategically organized in a way that we cant actually see. As he states in the last chapter, "the miscellaneous is unowned. Anyone can add to it. Anyone can slice it up and reorganize it the way she likes." He makes it clear that with everything being digital and a lump of metadata our brains must learn to understand a realm of information much deeper and its ins and outs. When the world was just books, journals and newspapers all we had to do was obtain the knowledge within them. We now have to know where to find it, how to understand it, ways to search for it, and so sift out exactly what we need. Weinberger loves the thought of miscellaneous and wants the new world to understand that it has made things simpler even though the word miscellaneous is so intimidating and overwhelming. Miscellaneous has actually become our benefit.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Post #3
Chapter 8:
The main point of chapter 8 is to define meaning, in certain cases meaning behind labels or words that signify a meaning. Metadata for example contains these aspects yet can more than often be confusing or irrelevant to what it actually means. The chapter uses a good example of labeling/metadata and what is real about something when it talks about a jar of jam. It has a label and we automatically know certain things about it, yet if you see this same jar of jam on the internet it may have only a few labels or informative words to it. It is not real compare tot he physical roadside jam. Yet this aspect of something online not having as much information can benefit users because it leaves room for more information such as tagging to be added and give it some kind og organization. All together the chapter puts a great light on implicit and explicit information that's present to the public.
It is important as a DTC major because we need to understand all aspects of how information is organized, distributed, and labeled on the internet, so that we can use it to our advantage in our work. Understanding how metadata works is important so that we are bale to present easily to those who don't understand how it works. Our world is on its way to simplifying a lot of things and being explicit is going to be important in our success.
Chapter 9:
Weinberger talks mainly about messiness and the three orders of mess. Today messiness is becoming the new way of organizing. On the internet everything is clumped together yet you can find things easier than in a shoebox of piled information. As everything once was organized such as photos in a shoebox in a closet, it has now been stored on cameras and memory cards. We don't have to print them to see them and we can even share them with more people than we know. Everyone organizes messes in one way or another and these messes make the information more important because metadata is connecting all of the other data that we need, it just seems like one big mess.
This is important as a DTC major because working in the technological field I will be digitally organizing everything as well as finding everything int he same manner. If I don't know how to sift through the organized mess that the internet has formed then I wont be very productive. Organization will be the key to our careers because there are so many components to our work.
The main point of chapter 8 is to define meaning, in certain cases meaning behind labels or words that signify a meaning. Metadata for example contains these aspects yet can more than often be confusing or irrelevant to what it actually means. The chapter uses a good example of labeling/metadata and what is real about something when it talks about a jar of jam. It has a label and we automatically know certain things about it, yet if you see this same jar of jam on the internet it may have only a few labels or informative words to it. It is not real compare tot he physical roadside jam. Yet this aspect of something online not having as much information can benefit users because it leaves room for more information such as tagging to be added and give it some kind og organization. All together the chapter puts a great light on implicit and explicit information that's present to the public.
It is important as a DTC major because we need to understand all aspects of how information is organized, distributed, and labeled on the internet, so that we can use it to our advantage in our work. Understanding how metadata works is important so that we are bale to present easily to those who don't understand how it works. Our world is on its way to simplifying a lot of things and being explicit is going to be important in our success.
Chapter 9:
Weinberger talks mainly about messiness and the three orders of mess. Today messiness is becoming the new way of organizing. On the internet everything is clumped together yet you can find things easier than in a shoebox of piled information. As everything once was organized such as photos in a shoebox in a closet, it has now been stored on cameras and memory cards. We don't have to print them to see them and we can even share them with more people than we know. Everyone organizes messes in one way or another and these messes make the information more important because metadata is connecting all of the other data that we need, it just seems like one big mess.
This is important as a DTC major because working in the technological field I will be digitally organizing everything as well as finding everything int he same manner. If I don't know how to sift through the organized mess that the internet has formed then I wont be very productive. Organization will be the key to our careers because there are so many components to our work.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Post #2
Chapter 5
The main point of chapter 5 is to discuss multiple specific ways of organizing miscellaneous piles or groupings of anything. Whether its of the simplest objects in life such as the silverware drawer or types of plants like Linnaeus did, which are actually simpler than worms and you wouldn’t think could be broken down into so many categories. Or there is the form of “tagging leaves” and forming the tree shape of organization. By the end of the chapter your introduced to the idea of tagging and how miscellaneous the internet actually is but so simplified because of ways to search of objects in such a large pool of information.
- “It was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – unjustly remembered primarily for being wrong about how giraffes got long necks.”
- “The gap between how we access information and how the computer accesses it is at the heart of the revolution in knowledge.”
The first quote that I picked out remind me directly of recent activity in y life because we are currently learning about Lamarck and his giraffe theory in my Physical Anthropology class
Chapter 6
The main point of chapter 6 is discussing the new age of how all kinds of stores use different forms of bar-coding, scanning, tracking, and packaging for their items. A larger scale of organization that not everyone may realize is taking place just to make every day shopping that much easier. It also discusses the complications within naming items around the world. They use seafood as a specific example and how there a multiple types of fish under one common name and can only be specified by their scientific name worldwide. Overall the chapter believes everything needs to be labeled in a smart manner.
- “As we enter the third order of order, bar codes are providing a handy gateway between physical products and digital information about those products.”
- “The world is so diverse in its things and how we view them that we’re never going to agree entirely; even when the intentions are the best and the leadership is unified, there will also be a miscellaneous residue.”
The first quote that I pulled out in this chapter reminds me of every interaction of obtaining something. I cant count the number of times I have used the self-scans at my local QFC and the non-replaceable bar-codes on a receipt you know you cant loose. Also the number of times I have had to scan a bar-code at my work or even yesterday when the ticket personal had to scan my bar-code on my lift ticket. Bar-codes are more of a necessity that we realize.
The main point of chapter 5 is to discuss multiple specific ways of organizing miscellaneous piles or groupings of anything. Whether its of the simplest objects in life such as the silverware drawer or types of plants like Linnaeus did, which are actually simpler than worms and you wouldn’t think could be broken down into so many categories. Or there is the form of “tagging leaves” and forming the tree shape of organization. By the end of the chapter your introduced to the idea of tagging and how miscellaneous the internet actually is but so simplified because of ways to search of objects in such a large pool of information.
- “It was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – unjustly remembered primarily for being wrong about how giraffes got long necks.”
- “The gap between how we access information and how the computer accesses it is at the heart of the revolution in knowledge.”
The first quote that I picked out remind me directly of recent activity in y life because we are currently learning about Lamarck and his giraffe theory in my Physical Anthropology class
Chapter 6
The main point of chapter 6 is discussing the new age of how all kinds of stores use different forms of bar-coding, scanning, tracking, and packaging for their items. A larger scale of organization that not everyone may realize is taking place just to make every day shopping that much easier. It also discusses the complications within naming items around the world. They use seafood as a specific example and how there a multiple types of fish under one common name and can only be specified by their scientific name worldwide. Overall the chapter believes everything needs to be labeled in a smart manner.
- “As we enter the third order of order, bar codes are providing a handy gateway between physical products and digital information about those products.”
- “The world is so diverse in its things and how we view them that we’re never going to agree entirely; even when the intentions are the best and the leadership is unified, there will also be a miscellaneous residue.”
The first quote that I pulled out in this chapter reminds me of every interaction of obtaining something. I cant count the number of times I have used the self-scans at my local QFC and the non-replaceable bar-codes on a receipt you know you cant loose. Also the number of times I have had to scan a bar-code at my work or even yesterday when the ticket personal had to scan my bar-code on my lift ticket. Bar-codes are more of a necessity that we realize.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Post #1
Prologue
- "Customers fall into two buckets...people who feel that asking for help is a personal failure and those who don't."
- "Physical stores are laid out for a species that rarely has eyeballs more than six feet off the ground."
- "Information doesn't want to be free. It wants to be miscellaneous."
The main point of the prologue was to describe the types of ideas that the book will be talking about, mainly the idea that our world is no longer limited to the physical dimensions. Also how information now travels through our world and how its organized.
When the prologue talks about walking into staples and having all of the items you need right there on one shelf it reminded me of how that has become a reality in my life. When I need to get all of my books for school for every new semester I dread the thought of going into the stores and browsing every shelf for every book I need. Yet today there is the very convenient option of pre-ordering all of your books online. You just put in your classes and sections and the store knows exactly what books are needed for each class and package them for you.
Chapter 1
- "Our bookstores look like they prefer seekers over browsers because the usual layout works well for people trying to find what they came in for."
- "The world started out miscellaneous but it didn't stay that way, because we work so damn hard at straightening it up."
The main point of this chapters is to get deeper into the ideas of how we organize and order everything in our lives so that nothing is miscellaneous. The most interesting point I thought was the Bettmann photo archives which I didn't even know existed. It was just an example of a form of old school organization but a good one at that.
After reading the first quote that I pulled out, it reminded me of many times I've walked into Barnes and Noble either knowing exactly what I want and walking to the help desk to find it as quickly as possible r having no idea and describing a genre I would like to explore and being directed to it. It's an overwhelming experience but so rewarding when you find what you want.
Chapter 2
- "On a field trip no one gets upset when students are told that A through M go on bus No. 1 and the N-Z's go on bus No. 2, but it would be front-page news if students were divided by race, prettiness, or their parents incomes."
- "We all understand that the companies owners made up the name so they'd get placed first in the yellow pages, because the trick works."
The main point of the second chapter is to look at a very particular form of organization, alphabetizing. It explores the different ways it has been used through out the century and whether it is the new ages best friend or worst enemy according to god.
The second quote reminds me of a time when I actually needed to find the AAA (triple A) number and there it was right in the beginning of the book. it is true that certain tricks for customer attention does work.
- "Customers fall into two buckets...people who feel that asking for help is a personal failure and those who don't."
- "Physical stores are laid out for a species that rarely has eyeballs more than six feet off the ground."
- "Information doesn't want to be free. It wants to be miscellaneous."
The main point of the prologue was to describe the types of ideas that the book will be talking about, mainly the idea that our world is no longer limited to the physical dimensions. Also how information now travels through our world and how its organized.
When the prologue talks about walking into staples and having all of the items you need right there on one shelf it reminded me of how that has become a reality in my life. When I need to get all of my books for school for every new semester I dread the thought of going into the stores and browsing every shelf for every book I need. Yet today there is the very convenient option of pre-ordering all of your books online. You just put in your classes and sections and the store knows exactly what books are needed for each class and package them for you.
Chapter 1
- "Our bookstores look like they prefer seekers over browsers because the usual layout works well for people trying to find what they came in for."
- "The world started out miscellaneous but it didn't stay that way, because we work so damn hard at straightening it up."
The main point of this chapters is to get deeper into the ideas of how we organize and order everything in our lives so that nothing is miscellaneous. The most interesting point I thought was the Bettmann photo archives which I didn't even know existed. It was just an example of a form of old school organization but a good one at that.
After reading the first quote that I pulled out, it reminded me of many times I've walked into Barnes and Noble either knowing exactly what I want and walking to the help desk to find it as quickly as possible r having no idea and describing a genre I would like to explore and being directed to it. It's an overwhelming experience but so rewarding when you find what you want.
Chapter 2
- "On a field trip no one gets upset when students are told that A through M go on bus No. 1 and the N-Z's go on bus No. 2, but it would be front-page news if students were divided by race, prettiness, or their parents incomes."
- "We all understand that the companies owners made up the name so they'd get placed first in the yellow pages, because the trick works."
The main point of the second chapter is to look at a very particular form of organization, alphabetizing. It explores the different ways it has been used through out the century and whether it is the new ages best friend or worst enemy according to god.
The second quote reminds me of a time when I actually needed to find the AAA (triple A) number and there it was right in the beginning of the book. it is true that certain tricks for customer attention does work.
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